Ivan Vejvoda, Executive Director, Balkan trust for Democracy

Ivan Vejvoda, is the Executive Director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy, a project of the German Marchall Fund of the United States (based in Belgrade since June 2003) with the goal of improving democratic institutions in South-East Europe.

He has served as the Senior advisor on foreign policy and European integration to the Serbian prime minister – Zoran Djindjic and subsequently to Zoran Zivkovic in 2002-03. Prior to his service in the Serbian government, vejvoda was executive director of the Belgrade-based Fund for an Open Society from 1998-2002. during the mid-1990’s, he held various academic posts in the United Kingdom and the United States, including a one-year stints as associate professor at both Smith College in the state of Massachusetts and Mcalaster College in Minnesota and a three year fellowship as a researcher at the University of Sussex in England.

Vejvoda has published widely on the subjects of democratic transition, totalitarianism, and post-war reconstruction in the Balcans. He was awarded the French National Order of Merit in the rank of Officer in 2006.